Law and Science

Law & Bioscience Project 

The Law & Bioscience Project is an intellectual exchange for bioscience companies, law firms, and academia.  The L.A.B Project is designed to both serve the bioscience community and help train our students. The program is organized through a website, with access available by invitation only. 

Law & Health Sciences Concentration

The Law & Health Sciences Concentration provides students with an opportunity to pursue a focused and integrated course of study on issues at the intersection of law, medicine and science. As the debate over health care reform intensifies, new medical technologies question the limits of our ethical principles, and scientific evidence from all disciplines becomes more pervasive in our courtrooms, the need for lawyers trained with an understanding of both our health care system and scientific methods is greater than ever.

Intellectual Property Concentration

The Intellectual Property Concentration is designed to better prepare students who wish to practice in the intellectual property field. It is also designed to create a sense of community among committed intellectual property students and the intellectual property faculty, facilitating networks for support and encouragement during students’ time at UC Hastings and beyond, into their careers. UC Hastings’ connections with Silicon Valley’s technology conglomeration, California's art and entertainment industries, and San Francisco’s vibrant intellectual property firms uniquely position it to offer perspectives from all aspects of the practice. IP concentration students are offered courses taught by practitioners from boutique and multi-national firms and in-house counsel, in addition to full-time UC Hastings faculty.

UCSF/Hastings Consortium: Law, Science, and Health Policy

Faculty and administrators at University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law have begun developing a Consortium dedicated to issues in law, science, and health policy.  The UCSF/Hastings Consortium will be a broadly based initiative to support interdisciplinary collaboration between these two great institutions.

Hastings Science and Technology Law Journal

Hastings Science and Technology Law Journal is a multidisciplinary journal created to enrich the discourse at the nexus of science, scientific methodology, technology, biotechnology, bioethics, health, public policy, and the law. The journal is designed to serve both the legal and scientific communities through prompt publication of scholarly works on the basis of originality, insight, timeliness, and elegance, and by providing an open forum for the discussion and interpretation of significant developments in science and law. Publishes two issues per yearly volume: Winter and Summer.